Ubisoft's Rabbids To Wreak Havok On Store Shelves This Summer

Ubisoft, a leading creator, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and services, has announced the bwaah-some news in the following press release, from Business Wire, that Ubisoft's mischievous Raving Rabbids are invading stores this Summer with a full lineup of licensed apparel, books, toys and more available at major retailers!

Five uniquely soft, lovable, yet wacky plush Rabbids from McFarlane available at Walmart for $12.97. (Photo: Business Wire)

These crazy creatures are undoubtedly one of the best known Ubisoft brands worldwide and extend well beyond video games in parodies, videos, illustrations, partnerships, consumer products and a hit television series on Nickelodeon, "Rabbids Invasion".

Additionally, Ubisoft has also announced more information about "Rabbids Invasion: The Interactive TV Show"! Available in November 2014, the brand-new video game is based on Ubisoft and Nickelodeon's highly successful "Rabbids Invasion" TV series created by Ubisoft Motion Pictures and is broadcast in several territories, including on Nickelodeon channels in the USA, UK and Germany. Launched in Fall 2013, the hit TV show has already been viewed more than 280 million times worldwide. The video game enables kids to jump into a selection of 20 episodes of the popular TV show and participate in the action on-screen.

The Rabbids are a true pop culture phenomenon and these wacky creatures have no plans to stop their rampage any time soon. Specific details on retailers, pricing and availability for Rabbids-inspired products can be found in Ubisoft's original press release announcing the Bwahsome news.

Original Ubisoft Press Release:

Ubisoft's Rabbids Wreak Havok on Store Shelves This Summer

Apparel, Toys and More Available at Major Retail Stores

June 13, 2014 12:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time

Licensing Expo 2014

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Ubisoft®'s Rabbids® are invading stores nationwide with a full lineup of licensed apparel, books, toys and more available at major retailers. These crazy creatures are undoubtedly one of the best known Ubisoft brands worldwide and extend well beyond video games in parodies, videos, illustrations, partnerships, products and a hit television series on Nickelodeon, Rabbids Invasion.

Rabbids® Invasion: The Interactive TV Show, available in November 2014, is based on the successful Rabbids Invasion TV series created by Ubisoft Motion Pictures and is broadcast in several territories including the US, UK, France and Germany. Launched in fall 2013, the hit TV show has already been viewed more than 280 million times worldwide. The video game enables kids to jump into a selection of 20 episodes of the popular TV show and participate in the action on-screen.

The Rabbids are a true pop culture phenomenon and these wacky creatures have no plans to stop their rampage any time soon. Specific details on retailers, pricing and availability for Rabbids-inspired products are listed below.

ABRAMS

ABRAMS is offering a standard-size full-color wall calendar that invites fans to spend the year laughing at antics and colorful images from their chaotic adventures. Available this August from online retailers, specialty retailers, and bookstores in the US and Canada, SRP $14.99.

Accessory Innovations

Accessory Innovations introduces their new line of Rabbids Invasion inspired lunchboxes, backpacks, wallets, belts, head gear, and other assorted accessories are available at Toys"R"Us. Accessory Innovations prides itself on creating accessories that offer style, and value for all price ranges. Both retailers and consumers appreciate the fine designer touches and attention to details, and trends and technology that are incorporated into the collections.

Bioworld

Bioworld, a leading design and distribution company of licensed and branded apparel, headwear, and accessories, brings the zany Rabbids to youth apparel. Styles available at major retailers including Target, Kohl's, Fred Meyer, Journeys, and Wal-mart.

Freeze

Freeze's Rabbids apparel includes adult and children T-shirts, fashion tops, hoodies, knits and separates and children's swimwear. Select apparel will be available at The Children's Place this summer.

McFarlane

McFarlane Toys, established by world-renowned artist and toy designer Todd McFarlane, has launched a hilarious line of Rabbids Invasion toys. The line includes plush, mini-figures, blind bags, sound and action toys and the "Top Summer Toy" award-winning whacky Rabbids Plunger-Blaster prank toy. Rabbids toys are available now at Walmart and Toys"R"Us and ranges in price from $2.99 to $19.99. Rabbids Toys images are available at: http://ftp.spawn.com/main.asp?dir=2014+PRODUCT+LIBRARY%2FKIDS+TELEVISION

Papercutz

Papercutz, the leading all-ages comics publisher will be producing a series of Rabbids graphic novels ranging in price from $7.99 to $12.99 and available at comic book stores, book stores and mass market outlets as well as Amazon, Barnesandnoble.com and wherever quality books are sold this fall.

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing

Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing is capturing the Rabbids' wacky antics with a full line of books including multiple chapter books, beginning readers and joke books in hardcover, paperback, and e-books. Hitting shelves this summer, Rabbids books will be available at Walmart and Target.

For more details on the Ubisoft licensed product lines, stop by the Ubisoft booth #B121 at Licensing Expo, June 17-19 at Mandalay Bay Convention Center.

For the latest on all of Ubisoft's games, please visit the UbiBlog: ubiblog.com

About McFarlane Toys

McFarlane Toys is the fifth largest action figure manufacturer in the United States. Established in 1994 the international award-winning company has expanded into licensed products to become one of the premiere action figure producers on the planet. www.mcfarlane.com/rabbidstoys

About Ubisoft

Ubisoft is a leading creator, publisher and distributor of interactive entertainment and services, with a rich portfolio of world-renowned brands, including Assassin's Creed, Just Dance, Tom Clancy's video game series, Rayman and Far Cry. The teams throughout Ubisoft's worldwide network of studios and business offices are committed to delivering original and memorable gaming experiences across all popular platforms, including consoles, mobile phones, tablets and PCs. For the 2013-14 fiscal year Ubisoft generated sales of €1,007 million. To learn more, please visit www.ubisoftgroup.com.

© 2013 Ubisoft Entertainment. All rights reserved. Rabbids, Ubisoft and the Ubisoft logo are trademarks of Ubisoft Entertainment in the U.S. and/or other countries.

Contacts
Ubisoft
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Nickelodeon Wins Big At PromaxBDA's 2014 Promotion, Marketing & Design North America Awards And Global Excellence Awards

PromaxBDA, the leading global association for marketing, promotion and design professionals in the entertainment industry, today, Friday 13th June 2014, announced the very exciting Nickelodeon News that Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids and families, won 15 awards at the 2014 Promotion, Marketing & Design North America Awards and six Global Excellence Awards! The awards were announced at "PromaxBDA: The Conference 2014", which recognizes the most creative and high-impact work produced in North America and throughout the world.

In PromaxBDA's 2014 Promotion, Marketing & Design North America Awards, Nickelodeon USA won the Gold and Silver 'Art Direction & Design: General Channel Image Campaign' awards for Nick USA's 2013 Halloween channel idents (station ID's) and 2013 'Knit' Holiday idents, respectively, and the Bronze 'Channel Holiday/Special Event Campaign' award for the networks 2013 Halloween idents in the 'Television - Video Presentation: Channel Promotion' category.

In the 'Television - Video Presentation: Content Promotion' awards category, Nickelodeon's "Kids' Choice Awards 2013" promotional campaign won the Bronze 'Live Event Campaign' award; Nick Jr. USA's 'Team Umizoomi Saves Gordon Ramsay' promotional spot and 'Bubble Guppies Pencil Case', a parody song based on Lady Gaga used to promote the premiere of "Bubble Guppies" season three, won the Gold and Bronze 'Children's Programming Spot Or Campaign' awards, respectively; Nickelodeon Preschools 'Team Umizoomi Saves Gordon Ramsay' promotional spot and 'Bubble Guppies Pencil Case', a parody song based on Lady Gaga, won the Gold and Bronze 'Children's Programming Spot Or Campaign' awards, respectively; Nickelodeon's 'Worldwide Day of Play 2013' campaign won the Bronze 'Public Service Announcement Campaign' award; Nickelodeon and 20th Century Fox's "Walking With Dinosaurs" "Dino Rap" Nickelodeon Orange Carpet special by "Haunted Hathaways" star Lil' P-Nut (Benjamin Flores, Jr.) won the Gold 'On-Air Consumer Tie-In/Brand Integrated Spot' award; the opening titles for Nickelodeon Preschools special "Dora the Explorer" episode "Dora in Wonderland" won the Silver 'Art Direction & Design: Program Open/Titles' award; and Nick Jr.'s 'Team Umizoomi Saves Gordon Ramsay' and 'Bubble Guppies Pencil Case' won the Silver and Bronze 'Daytime Program Spot Or Campaign' awards, respectively.

In the 'Television - Video Presentation: Special Categories' category, Nickelodeon's 'Bubble Guppies "Pencil Case"' trailer won the Gold 'Art Direction & Design: Music Video or Short Subject Video' award and Nickelodeon's web series "Republic City Hustle", a trilogy set three years prior to the events chronicled in "The Legend of Korra", won the Silver 'Art Direction & Design: Long Form/Webisode Or Viral Video' award.

In the 'Cross Media Promotion: Channel Promotion' category, Nickelodeon's 'Nickelodeon Knit Holiday IDs 2013' won the Gold 'Total Package Art Direction & Design: Channel Image - On-Air Only' award. Plus, in the 'Print' category, Nickelodeon's 'Kids Choice Awards 2013 Premium Items' won the Bronze 'Art Direction & Design: Promotional/Premium Item(s)' award.

In PromaxBDA's 2014 Promotion, Marketing & Design Global Excellence Awards, Nickelodeon Australia's 'Fanimals' campaign won Gold and Nickelodeon UK's 'Robot and Monster Song' trailer won Silver 'Children's Programming Spot Or Campaign' awards in the 'Television - Video Presentation: Content Promotion' category.

The 'Spaceship' episode of Nick Jr. UK's short-form series "Cardboard Box Adventures" won the Silver 'Art Direction & Design: interstitial/Short Form Spot' award.

Nickelodeon UK's 'Nick's Induction Video' won the Silver 'Marketing Video/Sizzle Reel/Presentation - Internal Use' award in the 'Television - Video Presentation: Cable, Satellite And Online Content Platforms' category.

Additionally, Nickelodeon Australia and New Zealand's 'Crack To School' campaign and 'Butts' Promo' won the Silver and Bronze 'Clip-Based Children's Programming Spot' awards, respectively, in the 'Television - Video Presentation: Content Promotion' category.

Congratulations Nickelodeon!!!

You can find a full list of PromaxBDA 2014 Promotion, Marketing & Design North America Awards and a full list of PromaxBDA 2014 Promotion, Marketing & Design Global Excellence Awards winners here on the official PromaxBDA website, promaxbda.org.

To celebrate Nickelodeon winning big at the PromaxBDA 2014 Promotion, Marketing & Design North America Awards and 2014 Global Excellence Awards, below are a selection of online streaming video clips featuring Nickelodeon's winning entry's! (If reading this post on the homepage, please click the 'Read More' link before to watch the videos.)

Nickelodeon UK Unveils Spellbinding Official "Every Witch Way" Website

To celebrate and promote Nickelodeon UK and Ireland and Nickelodeon HD UK, the number one commercial kids TV network in the UK, starting to premiere and show Nickelodeon's brand-new spell-binding fantasy television series "Every Witch Way" daily at 5:30pm (repeated at 6:30pm on Nick +1) from Monday 14th July 2014, Nick.co.uk has unveiled Nick UK & Eire's all-new official "Every Witch Way" show website to accompany the brand new show, which you can visit here at nick.co.uk/everywitchway!

Nickelodeon UK's all-new EWW series webpage features a "Meet The Characters" section featuring bios of the students of Iridium High

Emma Alonso (Paola Andino), Maddie Van Pelt (Paris Smith), Daniel Miller (Nick Merico), Andi Cruz (Daniela Nieves), Tony Myers (Kendall Ryan Sanders), Diego Rueda (Tyler Alvarez), Mac Davis (Mavrick Moreno), Gigi Rueda (Miss Information; Zoey Burger), Sophie Johnson (Autumn Wendel), Katie Rice (Denisea Wilson), and siblings Tommy Miller (Jason Drucker), Melanie Miller (Jackie Frazey) and Robbie Miller (Louis Tomeo), also known as The Terrible Three - plus a photograph gallery featuring exclusive animated GIF's of scenes of the show, exclusive online streaming video clips, and a exclusive online game featuring the Ultimate "Every Witch Way" Quiz!

Catch Nickelodeon's spellbinding brand-new show, "Every Witch Way", weekdays at 5:30pm from Monday 14th July 2014, only on Nickelodeon UK and Ireland/HD!

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Nickelodeon To Start Filming Brand-New Show "Bella and the Bulldogs" In July 2014; To Debut Series In 2015

Nickelodeon Star Brec Bassinger, who portrays Emma in "Haunted Hathaways", has announced the exciting Nick news in a post on her official Instagram profile page, @BrecBassinger, that Nickelodeon will start to film her upcoming brand-new Nickelodeon show "Bella and the Bulldogs", formally titled "Bella and the Bullfrogs", in about six weeks time in July 2014 (approximately Sunday 20th or Monday 21st July 2014)!

To celebrate Nickelodeon starting to film her all-new live-action television series soon, Brec also shared a exclusive photograph of Nickelodeon announcing her brand-new show at Nickelodeon Upfront 2014, which features Brec and two of her cast mates as their respective characters. The photo also features the "Bella and the Bullfrogs" logo and reveals the news that Nickelodeon are planning to start to premiere and show "Bella and the Bulldogs" in 2015!:

brecbassinger: Still not over this photo taken at nick upfronts this past march! 42 days till we start filming. I CAN NOT WAIT. #BellaAndTheBulldogs #nickelodeon

ambermontana: Don't forget about me when you become a huge super star [emoticons]

brecbassinger: @ambermontana puhleeze girl [emoticons]

"Bella and the Bulldogs", picked up for 12 episodes, follows a perky head cheerleader named Bella (Brec Bassinger, "The Haunted Hathaways") whose life in Texas takes an unexpected twist when she becomes the new quarterback for her school team, the Bullfrogs. Bella is joined by "The Troy" (Coy Stewart, "Are We There Yet?"), the Bullfrogs' dethroned quarterback along with his pint-sized sidekick, Newt (Buddy Handleson, "Wendell & Vinnie"). Rounding out the cast are Lilimar Hernandez as Sophie, Bella's cheerleader best friend: Jackie Radinsky as true southern cowboy, Sawyer; Haley Tju as Pepper; Paul Lacovara as a Referee; Rio Mangini ("See Dad Run") as Ace McFumbles; Evan Roe ("Sam & Cat") as Blake; and Sully Zack as Player #2. The series is written by Gabriel Garza and Jonathan Butler ("The Haunted Hathaways", "Fanboy & Chum Chum"), who were discovered through Nickelodeon's Writing Program. Jeff Bushell will serve as Executive Producer.

Brec Bassinger also recently shared another great photo on her official Instagram page featuring herself and some of her "Bella and the Bulldogs" co-stars, Buddy Handleson, Coy Stewart and Jackie Radinsky, on the school corridor/hallway studio set of their brand-new Nick show reading their scripts!

Can't wait to start filming again!! [emoticons] #bellaandthebullfrogs photo cred: @coystewart.

Plus, Brec's co-star Coy Stewart has also shared a exclusive photo on his official Instagram profile page, @coystewart, featuring Buddy Handleson, Jackie Radinsky and himself with their football coach:

This summer is about to be amazing people!

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Nickelodeon Greenlights Season Three of Global Hit Series "Sanjay and Craig"; Season Two To Debut Internationally From Autumn/Fall 2014

Nickelodeon has announced and confirmed the exciting news in the following press release, from Business Wire, that Nickelodeon, the number-one entertainment brand for kids and families, has renewed the networks global hit original animated series (NickToon) "Sanjay and Craig" for a 20-episode third season! The announcement was made by Russell Hicks, President, Content Development and Production at Nickelodeon.

Additionally, Nickelodeon has also announced in the same press release, below, that Nickelodeon's international channels and networks will start to premiere and show "Sanjay and Craig" season two, which debuts on Nick USA in July 2014, during the Fall/Autumn 2014 programming season.

Original Nickelodeon Press Release:

Nickelodeon Greenlights Season Three of Global Hit Series Sanjay and Craig

June 11, 2014 07:27 PM Eastern Daylight Time

BURBANK, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nickelodeon greenlights a third season of its hit animated series Sanjay and Craig with a 20-episode order. It was announced today by Russell Hicks, President, Content Development and Production, Nickelodeon. The original series follows the misadventures of Sanjay, an excitable and irreverent 12-year-old boy and his best friend Craig, a smooth-talking snake and master of disguise. New episodes from season two will debut this summer on Nickelodeon, with season two set to roll out internationally this fall.

Year to date, new episode premieres of Sanjay and Craig average a 4.9/1.6M with Kids 2-11 and 3 million total viewers. It is also the #2 animated show across all TV with Kids 2-11, behind SpongeBob SquarePants. The series premiered on Nickelodeon's international channel in September 2013, and is seen in more than 120 countries and territories around the world via the Nickelodeon channels and syndication. The show ranked as a top 5 program among Kids 4-14 in its time slot vs. other kids' channels in key international markets including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Poland, Hungary and South Africa. In CQ1'14, Sanjay and Craig reached more than 18 million viewers across 11 countries including Australia, Brazil, Germany, Spain, Hungary, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, Poland, United Kingdom and South Africa.

"When Sanjay and Craig was first brought to us and was described as being about two best friends, with one that just happens to be a snake, we knew that it had the makings of a great Nickelodeon cartoon," said Hicks. "This show is connecting with kids because our creators had a great vision and they are telling stories that our audience relates to and that are just flat out funny with a lot of heart."

The third season will continue to draw from real kid experiences as inspiration for Sanjay and Craig's many crazy adventures. The series will build upon the growing collection of cool and eclectic music, while featuring more half-hour specials, including a holiday episode, filled with weird and funny epic journeys that Sanjay, Craig, and best friends Hector and Megan pursue.

Sanjay and Craig was created by Jim Dirschberger, Jay Howell and Andreas Trolf. The second season is co-executive produced by Dirschberger and Howell, with Chris Viscardi and Will McRobb as executive producers. The series features the voice talents of Maulik Pancholy and Chris Hardwick in the lead roles as Sanjay and Craig, respectively, with additional cast members that include: Linda Cardellini (Freaks and Geeks) as Megan; Matt Jones (Breaking Bad) as Hector; Tony Hale (Veep, Arrested Development) as Mr. Noodman; Grey Griffin (The Fairly OddParents) as Darlene and Sandy Dickson; and Remington Tufflips as himself.

About Nickelodeon

Nickelodeon, now in its 35th year, is the number-one entertainment brand for kids. It has built a diverse, global business by putting kids first in everything it does. The company includes television programming and production in the United States and around the world, plus consumer products, online, recreation, books and feature films. Nickelodeon's U.S. television network is seen in almost 100 million households and has been the number-one-rated basic cable network for 19 consecutive years. For more information or artwork, visit http://www.nickpress.com. Nickelodeon and all related titles, characters and logos are trademarks of Viacom Inc. (NASDAQ:VIA, VIA.B).

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